Safe Food Advocacy Europe (SAFE)

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Goals / Remit

Improve the way the interests of ordinary citizens are represented in the EU debate concerning the future of EU food regulation. Letting our voices be heard by the key people involved in the EU legislation process!

Lobbying: The Food sector has become one of the most heavily regulated in the European Union, with an increasing number of Regulations directly addressing consumers and businesses of each Member State. It is in Brussels that the EU Institutions, the politics and the agro food business decide the future of our food system and it is in this city that the Safe Food Advocacy Europe association (SAFE) should build a serious lobbying transparency strategy. Too many lobbyist work in Brussels to defend interests of the agro food business. The food industries is focusing on business interest and not on consumer health. Therefore professional lobbyists will work for SAFE and they will be in close contact with all key persons involved in the EU legislation process, including Members of the European Parliament, officials of the European Commission, attaché of Permanent Representation to the EU etc… Transparency will be crucial in our lobbying strategy and our voice will be heard.
Informing: organization of seminars, training for consumers concerning reading food labels (the meanings of E650 or E450), additives, colors, pesticides and GMO. Raising awareness of the food system industry and all damage to consumer health and to the environment.
Give voice to reputable scientists whose voices have been silenced by the agro food industry. Organizing seminars with those scientists and publishing their researches on our website.
Organizing with many schools in different Member States training programmes for children and teenagers concerning industrial food components. Teaching new generations about additives, food colouring and pesticides. Industry usually organize this kind of training for school, we should let our voices be heard.
Research: finding funds for independent research on industrial food components and direct consequences for consumer`s health (DG Research).

Issues

1) Commission's plublic consultation on food contact materials
2) EFSA’s Draft Protocol for The Assessment of Free Sugars from All Dietary Sources
3) European Commission’s Implementing Regulation on Food Origin
4) Endocrine disruptors and the draft Commission acts setting out scientific criteria for their
determination in the context of the EU legislation on plant protection products and biocidal products.
5) The Commission proposal for the revision of Regulation (EU) 1308/2013 and more specifically the meat denomination issue
6) The Commission proposal for a Regulation on "Establishing rules on support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States under the Common agricultural policy (CAP Strategic Plans) and financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)", repealing Regulation (EU) 1305/2013 and Regulation (EU) 1307/2013
7) The farm to fork strategy
8) Food waste and sustainable food.
9) EU food labelling
10) Policies related to the fight against obesity and its consequences
11) EU vegan and vegtarian legislation.
12) Reduce sugar consumption.
13) Proposal for a Regulation on Novel Foods (nanomaterials, cloning of animals for food production).
14) The promotion of sustainable farming systems such as organic stock free farming and permaculture

Procurement from EU institutions

Grants from EU institutions

Full specified budget

Total budget

336,492 €

Total public financing

248,092 €

Other financial information

SAFE is a very small ASBL and half of people working at SAFE are traineeships or people working on a voluntary basis. For this reason our budget is quite low.
Furthermore, in 2019, SAFE had only four paid employees and only a fraction of their working time was related to activities covered by the Register. €

There are no notes attached to this organisation.

High-level groups

Consultative committees

Expert groups (European Commission)

none

Intergroups (European Parliament)

None

Industry forums (European Parliament)

None

Complementary information

This is the activity of the year.
Lobbying: The Food sector has become one of the most heavily regulated in the European Union, with an increasing number of Regulations directly addressing consumers and businesses of each Member State. It is in Brussels that the EU Institutions, the politics and the agro food business decide the future of our food system and it is in this city that the Safe Food Advocacy Europe association (SAFE) should build a serious lobbying transparency strategy. Too many lobbyist work in Brussels to defend interests of the agro food business. The food industries is focusing on business interest and not on consumer health. Therefore professional lobbyists will work for SAFE and they will be in close contact with all key persons involved in the EU legislation process, including Members of the European Parliament, officials of the European Commission, attaché of Permanent Representation to the EU etc…

Meetings with European Commission

3 meetings found.

The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't publish information about such meetings. All information below comes from European Commission web pages.